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Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine | 
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$8.79
(11 items) |
Album info
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Release date:
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26 July 2005 |
Rating:
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8.2 | 455 votes |
Owners:
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631 have it
29 want it
3 trade it |
Disc I
01. Enter The Machine
02. Taking Back My Soul
03. Nemesis
04. My Apocalypse
05. Carry The Cross
06. I Am Legend/Out For Blood
07. Skeleton Dance
08. Hybrids Of Steel
09. Mechanic God Creation
10. Machtkampf
11. Slaves Of Yesterday
12. Heart Of Darkness [Live in Paris 2004] [Japanese bonus]
13. Bridge Of Destiny [Live in Paris 2004] [Japanese bonus]
Disc II [German limited edition bonus DVD - Live Apocalypse preview]
01. Intro
02. Dead Eyes See No Future [Live in London 2004]
03. Ravenous [Live in London 2004]
+ Nemesis [video clip]
Reviews (3)
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Gus G. from Firewind plays guest lead guitar on track 2 |
Review by Kap'N Korrupt [Guest reviewer]
Doomsday Machine marks Arch Enemy's third installment in their new millennium Angela Gossow period. This album certainly has the slickest production of all three Gossow albums. Gossow herself has been produced in order to sound harsher vocally, sometimes bordering on black metal screeching on some songs. Fans of previous Gossow albums will enjoy Doomsday Machine but will be sad as this is the last Arch Enemy album with Christopher Amott on it. Amott left the band in the summer of 2005 in order to continue his studies.
Doomsday Machine simply presents more of the same. Arch Enemy hasn't changed any of the previous ingredients offered up on earlier releases. It's actually quite amazing how they can continue to excel in the death/thrash vein and never stagnate the genre like many bands have. Doomsday Machine sounds almost accessible at times. Songs like We Will Rise, Savage Messiah, and Dead Eyes See No Future from earlier albums also hinted at commercial aspects the band could present. The melodic and almost poppy guitar melodies in the chorus of Nemesis, where Angela's vocals really don't fit to well, could be an example of this on Doomsday Machine. Furthermore, Angela's vocals are very parallel to many compositions on Doomsday Machine; it sounds like she sound sing some lyrics clean instead of growling them.
Arch Enemy is great at breaking songs down into acoustic or clean guitar passages in many of their harsh compositions. This is once again displayed on Doomsday Machine. There are in fact more breakdowns on this album then on any other. Random samples pop in here and there, especially on a track like My Apocalypse where is sounds like a dolphin has been installed into the refrain melody.
Carry The Cross is a great example of hard/soft structure. Here again is another example of how Angela should be clean singing instead of growling. Finally, the highlight of the album is of course I Am Legend/Out for Blood. This is a two part song. The first part consists of instrumental thrash while the second part contains intricate well-designed fast guitar licks combined with Angela's newly produced vocals as the harsh overtone to the mixture.
Doomsday Machine is a very well thought out piece of work. Catchy brutal chord structures are still presented and effectively pounded into the listener's head over and over again. This makes Arch Enemy an indefinite force to be reckoned with. A gifted band, Arch Enemy has completely reinvented the death/thrash genre with their refreshing perspective. This is one of their best albums and with such a firm piece of work like this, many Arch Enemy fans remain impatient to see weather they will put out more of the same or delve into more commercial territory
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Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
published 29.06.2006 | Comments (16) |
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9.4
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Review by Savage Messiah [Guest reviewer]
The 2005 release "Doomsday Machine" by Arch Enemy is yet another example of the band's ability to create brilliant melodic death metal, in their own unique way. Stepping further away from their older, original sound, Arch Enemy has created a new album consisting of songs that vary in speed and overall sound. "Doomsday Machine" is a highly entertaining mix of songs ranging from a slow, haunting intro to blistering, bone chilling riffs.
Enter The Machine is a slow, haunting intro, leaving you waiting for more. Knowing that Arch Enemy is holding back puts you on the edge of your seat anticipating their inevitable speed. In Taking Back My Soul, Arch Enemy show off their speed and launch straight into their faster, heavier sound. The guitar, bass and drums are all fast and furious, but stay un-monotonous, making this song fun to listen to without becoming boring fast. Nemesis, perhaps the fastest sounding song on "Doomsday Machine" is in my opinion the highlight of the album, with its incessant speed, contrasted with an eerie interlude near the end of the song. No two songs on this album sound the same, all of them have their own original riffs and solos, combined with killer lyrics and vocals, making this album unique and yet another amazing album from Arch Enemy.
Angela Gossow shows us again that she is an amazing death metal vocalist, showing endless skill in contorting her voice in the non-instrumental songs of this album. Daniel Erlandsson's constant powerful, machine-like drumming takes this album to a level of speed few bands can maintain. Michael Amott and Fredrik Akesson play their guitars mercilessly, with no shortage of energy or creative genius in their solos and riffs. Sharlee D'Angelo adds to Arch Enemy's heavy feel, and plays the bass lines and riffs with skill few bass players possess.
Upon first hearing "Doomsday Machine" I was hooked on the "Wages Of Sin" album's sound, and so was not impressed by the 2005 release at first. However the band's new sound and songs grew on me, and I came to love it. I give this album an overall rating of 9, and look forward to hearing more from Arch Enemy!
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Guest review disclaimer:
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published 12.07.2006 | Comments (6) |
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Review by Pétur [Guest reviewer]
There seems to be a lot of praise for Doomsday Machine, people think this was the comeback album of Arch Enemy after the lacking Anthems Of Rebellion. I didn't listen to Arch Enemy that often until I found the slipcase version of Doomsday Machine for a low price so I decided to pick it up and see what all the praise is about.
I love the futuristic look of the cover and the album booklet, it really gives a post apocalyptic aura and it shows great care - another good reason to buy instead of downloading. The intro really emits the post apocalyptic aura even more; it really sounds like a doom machine is about to be unleashed. And the machine unleashes it's rage on "Taking Back My Soul". The sound is crystal clear and Angela's screams are really crushing and it grabs you directly by the throat and the aggressive melodic riffs set the score just right. "Nemesis" is really a song for live performances especially with the lyric "One for all - all for one we are strong - we are one Nemesis". Now my favourite track of the album "My Apocalypse" has the perfect balance of brutality and melody and I love the added "sonar echo" effect. It gives a vision of a submarine about to strike.
"Carry A Cross" shows a change; it is a nice slower and softer song to fit the mood of the "burden we carry". Unfortunately it is also a bit dull and I really think it would have been better if Angela had've sung clean vocals here. The dullness doesn't end their sadly because "I Am Legend / Out For Blood" starts with an overly boring intro and the anger later in the song doesn't make up for it. It gets even worse all other songs are even more sleep inducing, "Hybrids Of Steel" is now my cure for insomnia since it is the boring "I Am Legend / Out For Blood" intro but only without the anger making up for it. Only "Machtkampf" seems to break the monotony, only to fail again in the later half of the song. It's in the other half that the Doomsday Machine gets a new nickname from me: Doomsday Recycle Machine, since all of those songs recycle riffs a lot. Sorry guys but this album isn't that heavenly as you claim it is. It probably would have been if the rest of the album were just as ace as the first five songs. Instead what we have is an album that is half good but other half containing boring and monotonous songs without character.
The bonus DVD is what it is - some clips of their live DVD and it is a pretty good performance.
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Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
published 06.07.2008 | Comments (9) |
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